<p>Some of the people have taken the SSAT and I would just like to ask which part was the hardest. Sure youve gotten 99s but which part and what kind of question was the trickiest?lol</p>
<p>Verbal was the hardest without question.</p>
<p>It just depends on an individual’s abilities. Someone who has an outstanding vocabulary and excellent logic skills will find the verbal part easy. If English is not your first language, the verbal section might be the hardest for you.</p>
<p>I found the Reading section the hardest because the answers were less cut and dried; there was really more than one ‘correct’ answer for a lot of questions. When they ask for the ‘best’ answer, it’s sometimes hard to know exactly what they mean.</p>
<p>I have a question. Is your percentile based on how well you did compared to students of the same sex on that test date? Or is it based on like… last years scores or something?</p>
<p>I was thinking that maybe the more driven and smarter students took it on the first test dates, while the others took it on the other days.</p>
<p>Your percential is based on the pool of same sex test takers from the prior 3 years.</p>
<p>Oh, okay. Thanks.</p>
<p>Correction to my post #6 above – It is test takers over the past 2 years.</p>
<p>I found the verbal to be the most difficult while taking it, but I scored higher on that than the reading (though same percentile) and equally high on the quantatative. If you don’t know basic geometry (angle and parallel line properties, et cetra), I would study with a prep book on that. For the verbal, flash cards can be helpful, but it work best for me to memorize them all the day before the test, instead of spread out over time. I agree that the reading is sometimes difficult because there is more than one correct answer, or it is a matter of opinion (i.e. “What would be the best title for this passage”). In that case, it’s best to try to think of what they test administraters would want to hear.</p>
<p>I didn’t do too much; I studied for three weeks with the Official, Kaplan, and the Princeton Review (Princeton Review was most helpful), about thirty minutes a day, most days. I think the best thing you could do would be to take a practice test raw (without studying), timed, look at what you need to work on, and then later take another test to see if your methods are effective. Good luck!</p>